{"id":1119,"date":"2009-04-18T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/04\/national-record-store-day.html"},"modified":"2009-04-18T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T23:02:00","slug":"national-record-store-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/04\/national-record-store-day.html","title":{"rendered":"National Record Store Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SepsXzf2zYI\/AAAAAAAAAPU\/p087hNznbbA\/s1600-h\/record.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SepsXzf2zYI\/AAAAAAAAAPU\/p087hNznbbA\/s320\/record.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>TODAY is, they tell me, national record store day&#8230; it&#8217;s hard not to be both excited and sadly nostalgic. i&#8217;ve been haunting record stores in every city and town i&#8217;ve ever lived in &#8212; severna park maryland; middletown, ct; brighton, england;\u00a0baltimore; chapel hill; new london\/mystic, ct; LA &#8212; and almost every place i&#8217;ve visited. okay, i&#8217;m a junkie.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i loved newberry comics in boston, waterloo in austin, and the now-shuttered schoolkids in chapel hill&#8230; not to mention other music in new york. and pickadilly in manchester, UK!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calendarlive.com\/music\/cl-wk-cover9dec09,0,1771495.story\">HERE<\/a> is a piece i wrote about LA&#8217;s greatest record store clerks. it should surprise nobody when i point out that several of the stores in question have closed since i reported the story. either way, a lot of my education, musical and otherwise, came from hanging out in (and working in) record stores.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090418\/ap_en_bu\/record_store_day\">here<\/a> is an ap story on natl record store day.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>a friend is writing a book about great record stores. what are my illustrious readers favorites?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>sigh.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rocknroll_guitar\/3218524073\/\">rocknroll_guitar<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TODAY is, they tell me, national record store day&#8230; it&#8217;s hard not to be both excited and sadly nostalgic. i&#8217;ve been haunting record stores in every city and town i&#8217;ve ever lived in &#8212; severna park maryland; middletown, ct; brighton, england;\u00a0baltimore; chapel hill; new london\/mystic, ct; LA &#8212; and almost every place i&#8217;ve visited. okay, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[285,179,40,178,38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-amoeba","7":"category-clerks","8":"category-indie","9":"category-record-stores","10":"category-rock-music","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}